This week's host is Frances at  Volatile Reader  blog. The topic is Choosing Nonfiction: There are many topics to choose from when looki...

Way back in 2007 when The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman was first released, I heard scores of rave reviews, so I added it to my wa...

I took advantage of the seasonal R.I.P. Challenge and Series September event to finally read a book I have heard wonderful things about: A...

My neighborhood book group met last week to discuss Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by ...

I recently finished another audiobook for my Big Book Summer Challenge, Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat. I was sold on this b...

I decided this year to only going to write a full-length review if a book was really great. Well, my very first book read in 2023, Lessons i...

I really enjoyed The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, so I was excited to read her next novel, The Dreamers . It features the same...

I noticed last weekend that one of my 2022 Reading Challenges , The Monthly Motif Challenge , had for its August theme, "Quick Lit,...

Since its release in 2018, I have been hearing rave reviews of The Overstory by Richard Powers, which won the Pulitzer Prize, was short-lis...

Forget Stephen King. In Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom , author and investigative journalist Katherine Eban write...